Dark Gods (4)

Here too the Gods found a species that was in some way like ours. - Except he did not yet have the capacity to speak, or to reason as our species. He was in short nothing more than an animal. - A little Homo Flores, or barely upright Homo erectus. At any rate, the Gods saw too that this species not unlike ours had potential, and was in fact ripe for their purposes. So they gave him the capacity of speech and began to teach him things.